The themes, which capture the work of the University
Committee in the past year, were disappointment, transition, and renewal.

The academic year began with the gloomy economic forecast
that the state government budget was facing a major shortfall and that the
UW-System would have to trim its budget request to the legislature.UW-Green Bay was in the budget to receive
$500,000 for the Learning Experience proposal and would have to change its
plans for implementing components of the Learning Experience.The Faculty Senate quickly took up the issue
on how to best allocate these funds.This led to holding a Special Faculty Senate meeting in late September
to deliberate on whether the body wished to adopt the recommendations of the
Learning Experience Implementation Drafting Committee Report.A meeting of the UW-Green Bay Faculty,
called by petition and attended by 122 faculty members, in November, followed
the Senate meeting.At the faculty
meeting a resolution was passed calling for all new monies be allocated to
full-time faculty positions and that the new hires be assigned to General
Education so as to improve the learning experience of students by reducing
class size.The budgetary situation of
the state continued to deteriorate and the $500,000 for the Learning Experience
was cut from the budget.

It was a year of transition for the administration.Interim Chancellor William Kuepper concluded
his services to the university and turned the reins over to incoming Chancellor
Bruce Shepard in November.The
University Committee was active in the Search and Screen processes for a
Provost and a Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences.The University Committee has established open and trusting
relations with the new administrative team and feels very positive about
working with them and their leadership capabilities.

Renewal came surprisingly fast.After so many hours of discussion and deliberations about the
state of the General Education program, the University Committee felt it was
time to act.Following a meeting with
the Chancellor and the Chair of the General Education Council, the University
Committee issued a charge to the GEC to prepare a new plan for General
Education by September.The document
has been completed and the UC congratulates the GEC for its excellent work,
prepared under extreme time constraints.

In the past year the Faculty Senate took affirmative action
on the following issues:

Changed
the requirements for honors;

Policy
on the designation of B.A. and B.S. degrees for majors in academic
programs;

Admission
standards for new freshmen;

Revision
of Double Counting of Upper-Division Credits required for graduation;

Resolution
on Tenure and Due Process; and

Support
authorization of a joint UW-Green Bay/UW-Oshkosh Masters of Social Work
program.

Issues that remain for action by the Faculty Senate are:

·Faculty Status for Academic Staff, and

·Changes in the UW-Green Bay code 6.01 Complaints and
6.02 Grievances

The University Committee deliberated and took positions on
the following issues:

Work
with the Chancellor on developing a strategic budgeting process involving
all stakeholders;

University
should develop a comprehensive faculty development fund to supplant
separate funding for Faculty Development and Research Council;

Agrees
that advising needs to be improved but is not satisfied with the current
proposal;

Responded
to a query by the Chancellor that the full 4.2% pay raise should be funded
even if it means cutting the base budget elsewhere now that only 3.2% of
the promised pay plan of 4.2% has been funded;

After
reviewing sharp differences in budgetary support for S&E across units,
recommends that S&E policy be reviewed and that current S&E funds
that are used for labs and other essential instructional purposes be
designated as instructional, not as S&E;

Recommended
that a decision to permit on-campus students to take Extended Degree
courses this fall semester be rescinded for failure to follow the code and
consult with governance; and

Concurred
with a memorandum from the AAC that it was “disappointed that the
university administration decided to effect a significant change in a
masters level program without consulting adequately with faculty
governance” and was in violation of the code when it created the Masters
of Management and dissolved the Masters of Administrative Science; and

Even
though the issue of reforming faculty governance to make the Senate better
informed and a more powerful voice for the faculty by having faculty
committees accountable to the Faculty Senate was discussed, we were never
able to get to it.

On behalf of the University Committee, we thank you for your
support and the opportunity you provided for us to serve. Our prayers for full recovery for our
colleague Professor Joe Mannino, who left us for an extended medical leave at
mid-year of his third year of service on the UC, will never waiver.Professor Joyce Salisbury was elected to
fill the position and was in full stride from the beginning.Keep up the good work and have a great
year.The Faculty Senate and University
Committee are in very capable hands.